Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yazdi wasted no time in wielding a new broom at the Foreign Ministry; his first act was to accept the resignation of four deputy ministers appointed by his predecessor, Karim Sanjabi, who resigned two weeks ago. The White House is eager to learn whom Yazdi will name as a replacement for the Shah's longtime, high-living ambassador to Washington, Ardeshir Zahedi. In Zahedi's absence, the spokesman for the Iranian embassy has been Yazdi's articulate son-in-law, Shahriar Rouhani, 29, who temporarily put aside his doctoral studies in physics at Yale to serve...
...authorities dismissed its claims. But by imposing a blackout on news of the police investigation, government officials inspired speculation in the press about possible, and some rather impossible, culprits. France Soir reported that the police believed "extreme leftists" had planted the explosives. Le Matin de Paris suggested that the act had been committed by Palestinians working on behalf of Libya. The newsweekly Le Point hinted that the CIA might have been involved, and Le Nouvel Observateur insinuated that the French secret service had set the charges...
...deal: it agreed to show its final-and most damning-article to the government before publishing it. That article, detailing how Distillers had been negligent in selling the dangerous drug in the first place, was firmly banned by a lower court. The paper appealed, but the Law Lords who act as Britain's highest court refused to bend the contempt law, leaving the Sunday Times nowhere else to turn to get the story published...
...valuable: entry cards to Louisville's Churchill Downs. There could be no surer tipoff that Kentucky Derby time is at hand. The counterfeiters were betrayed by their brazenness. They sold phony $50 tickets to an imaginary grandstand at the 105th Run for the Roses this weekend. But their act of daring is soon to be outdone by a few intrepid horse owners. They plan to put up entries against Spectacular Bid, one of the most heavily favored colts in the history of the Derby. Many track watchers believe the big gun-metal gray colt will take this year...
...South African government has effectively rendered the withdrawal debate sterile. Even if a foreign company were to succeed in disposing of its assets in South Africa for a fair, rather than a forced sale price, translating them into loans to the South African government would hardly be an act of disengagement. Indeed, church stockholders who have led the proxy battle to stop U.S. bank loans to the South African government and state-controlled corporations, in the hypothetical case of their succeeding and persuading some company operating in the Republic of South Africa to sell its assets there, only to find...